Preferring "Art & Design" Education Candidates

The Art and design student is considered the core of developing and spreading the aesthetic values in his community. The process of choosing the appropriate student is the first step towards preparing a qualified creative original designer, This is because it represents the basic talent that is developed through the curricula of art and design colleges.

Choosing the suitable student depends basically on three innate skills he should have. These skills are: his creativity, his visual aesthetic sensitivity, and his psychomotor skills. We can measure these skills with different kinds of tests. There are some available tests which can measure the right amount of these skills possessed by the student enabling him to study art and design. The art and design studies help the student to develop these natural skills which he already possesses, These skills are innate skills that cannot be learned or acquired through training.

This paper aims to study the process of choosing the art and design student, and also the tests related to it. Including some case studies involving these tests applied in different schools and universities.